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It’s a strange thing, to want to die. Stranger still when you don’t feel you deserve to get away so easily.
“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”
― A Very Easy Death
― A Very Easy Death
“I think I love him for this loneliness, that it's what pushed me toward him. I love his aloofness, his disengagement with the outside world. Such singularity moves me.”
― Lie With Me
― Lie With Me
“I had the time to think all the way home about how affairs of the body are so much more preferable to affairs of the heart, but that sometimes you don't have the choice.”
― Lie With Me
― Lie With Me
“I know a sentence that is still more terrifying, more terribly ambiguous than “I am alone,” and it is, isolated from any other determining context, the sentence that would say to the other: “I am alone with you.” Meditate on the abyss of such a sentence: I am alone with you, with you I am alone, alone in all the world.”
― The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II
― The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II
“(And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)”
― Lie With Me
― Lie With Me
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